How to Start a Blog in 2025(and Make Money)

Hi Hello there..! I see that you just landed on this post searching for How to start a blog of your own and The Internet has done its job.

Let me guess why you want to start a blog.

You want to document something (anything public or private), share your expertise or passion, build a business or create something of your own, do a side hustle, or you feel trapped in your 9-5 job, or you may be looking forward to journaling your journey, hobbies, or research because a blog is a great outlet for self-expression. You want to have a side stream of income that helps you eliminate extra expenses and achieve financial stability.

Last but not least, you want to do something meaningful, which will build credibility with the pros of minimal risks.

Before that let’s have some introduction.

Hi, I am Suvam Neogie, an IT engineer by education & profession and also owner of this blog.

I scroll the internet a lot from anything to everything whatever the internet provides. From specific subjects to a hell lot of random stuffs.

And when I search, I get content in the form of a blog just like this or in Video or Image format (if searching in YouTube or Google Stories/Instagram). And I think you also get the same format whenever you search for things on the Internet. Isn’t it?

Also, when i was doing my IT job i came to know that my little brother(who isnt little anymore) is also in blogging and he’s been in it for full-time from his college days & a self-earning blogger.Please do visit his website and give thumps up.That was a really surprising and proud moment for me and also gave me the boost to start this blog.

I searched again back in the internet and found some surprising overwhelming results.

Found out there are a hell lot of bloggers world wide. I came to know that there people in colleges and full time jobs who are also into blogging and earning really .Good i mean REALLY GOOD($50,000+)monthly on their blog.

My mind couldn’t process it really for some time. It even still sometimes couldn’t. But seeing my brother and these people made me believe.

From birth till death, all of us have to/will have to deal with finances of our own and our family. We actually spend and lot of time thinking and planning about our finances and having something reliable which helps a lot in handling these finances.

So decided to give it a shot, without any prior experience, without any knowledge I jumped into it.

I am an ex-pro-procrastinator and I am really trying to be one. In this world full of excessive information in our hands I believe we as humans have become very less explorative as well in comparison to our ancestors who despite of limited resources and knowledge has given us so much that we can even calculate and quantify.

Whatever your story maybe,it wont be same as mine but probably it may be somewhere in the below.

• Feeling trapped and frustated in your 9-5 .
• Unable to travel and just live on weekends.
• Wanting to create something of you own which adds values to you and the world.
• Clearing your debts and helping you gain financial stability.
• Creating and attaining financial freedom.

There are many other reasons as well, but do tell me if you fall in any one of the above five mentioned.

So before starting let me give just a rough table of the approx earnings top bloggers over the world are making.

The numbers themselves speaks a lot, isn’t ? But this is just a small list. The world already has a good number of bloggers.

So let’s get started.I will try to be with you in the same page throughout the entire journey😊.

Let’s dive in and follow the step-by-step guide below and start your very own blow blog within 10 minutes.

1. Pick up your Niche and then your Blog name.

A Niche is the specific area of field or topic you would be blogging about. It should be something that interests you and you are comfortable to write about. For eg:-I am interested in “Growth Mindset” because till death every day we learn something still there are things we always miss so I created this blog that revolves around stuff related to “Growth” be it financially, mentally, physically or spiritually and I further named this blog as OnetoGrowth.That’s my blog name.

Similarly, one who is interested in photography can create a photography blog with his/relevant blog name and can post his/her photography tricks and tips, camera/lens reviews and tricks as well as his photographs. Also further growing he can sell his photographs and photography lessons via courses and ebooks as well.

The same goes for other subjects and topics as well.

Let me show you some common niche people and big corporations blog on.

So as long as you have something that interests you, you can create a blog on it, share content and that will make money.

2. Choosing your blogging platform and buying your domain name & hosting.

A Blogging platform is the place where you would have your online content reside and will be managed, designed, edited as well .Some of the common blog hosting platform are WordPress,Blogger,Tumblr etc etc. I personally prefer to use WordPress because it provides full ownership,have a lot of add-ons,extensive plugins & themes,easily customisable & scalable ,provides monetizing capabilities aand have a vibrant interactive community & support worldwide.

For the same reasons i would also insist you to prefer the same.

When we are cretaing a self hosted blog we need a web host whi would provide us a web hosting plan to stay online.Here come Hostinger in the play who act as domain provider and registrars.

Hostinger provides us variety of plans to host our blogs online.You can also get a free domain by choosing their annual plan.

Now with its WordPress suite provides really optimese features and customising capabilities which makes your blogging easier making for room for writing.

A domain name is the web address name followed by .com, .org , .edu etc etc .

For eg :This website domain name is Onetogrowth.com. Similarly you can choose you own blog domain name as per your own convenience and availability in the hosting platform .

First ,Go click in Hostinger.com, if you haven’t already .Even I am also using the same blog hosting platform .You see below page opening.Make sure to open it in a new tab so that you can follow the guide and Hostlinger simultaneously.

click here to go to Hostinger.com

(You can also change your language and country in the Hostinger landing page and perform same step as below)

Now click on claim deal. After clicking it will take you to below .

Now select the Premium plan by clicking on Choose Plan which will cost around $2.5 a month and will cover all the necessary things required at this moment.Below page will load up .

Here you can choose the period for you web hosting and additionally you get a free domain if you choose a period minimum of one year .Proceed continue give your details and proceed to buyout the plan .

I took my domain of Onetogrowth.com for 3 years as you can see above.

After you have buyout the domain hosting you can login to Hostinger and check and setup you domain like setting up pasword and other steps whch are easy and straightforward.

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4. Setting up your blog website .

After you have bought your Hostinger Managed WordPress plan,they will redirect you to the onboarding page where select ‘Create a Website‘ and provide the required details.

Next choose the blog website type and how you want to build it.They provide three options:-

• You can use the AI website builder which provides a fully functional blog simply by describing how you want it.
• You can use a pre-built website template by selecting the templated provided and customising it .
• You can build it from Scratch by installing themes from wordpress and then customising it.

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You can choose to create website via AI. After you click on “Next“.It will ask you to claim your free website just like below.

Suppose you want to create a food blogging website on Japanese Food.Lets say Japanesefood.blogYou can check similarly in the below.

Make sure you use a catchy word combination for your website domain name.For eg:-

• Japanesefood.blog
• FoodofJapan.net
• FlovoursofJapan.com etc etc….

The most used domain name extensions are .com & .net.If those are not available you can try some tweaks and check with other domain name extensions like .org, .blog, .xyz, .edu, .store etc. Click Next. Select the nearest data centers to you audience for faster loading .

Click Next and install & setup WordPress automatically.

The AI website builder will then ask you to provide you website description as below.

Hit Create.

Wait a few seconds and TADAAAA!! Your blog wesbiste is ready .

Click on Confirm & Edit and it will redirect you to the WordPress Edit Area.

5. Customize your Website.

Now that you have set up your website, you can start customizing your website by going to WordPress Edit Area where you can select your theme for the website, add a home, about, or contact page, create posts and pages, create categories & tags to sort your content, style your website, add plugins and blocks for customization.

You can start designing your website, customize it, create content, and publish it when you feel like it.

You will get a lot of content on WordPress on the internet or you can learn from Hostinger Academy. So just get started.

6. Plan and publish your content.

After you have done some customization on your website.you can start planning, researching and then finally publishing your content. You have your own blog where you can share your views ,ideas, creativity. So go ahead and share with the world.

What publishing is? Its making your content go Online.Bloggers, Influencers, Corporates all have there online presence over social media. They publish and promote their content on those media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram,Youtube, Medium,Quora etc etc.

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How do Bloggers make money?

Bloggers make money through multiple ways.Let me tell you some of the most common ways:-

1.Displaying Ads :- After you have been consistently publish you content and promoting it,you will gaining traffic from all over.once the traffic and reached or exceeded a certain threshold ,there are certain premium Ad networks like MediaVine, Google Adsense, Ezoic for which you can apply for and once accepted ,they pay you.Yes that’s correct .

Mediavine has a threshold traffic for 50K sessions/month(almost 50k-60k pageviews) whereas Ezoic has much less like 10k pageviews/month.Below are some of the common ADs networks.

2.Affliate marketing :- Affiliate marketing is simply promoting a business product or service of someone else and after a sale has been made a certain commission is provided to the referer for promoting the product or service.For eg: I would a certain commission if you buyout from the link I had provided to buy the domain & hosting from Hostinger without costing you anything extra.There are multiple affiliate marketing programs available which you would getting more ideas once you start digging more deeper into blogging.Here are some of Affiliate marketing provider:-

3.Selling products and services :- Bloggers also earn by selling digital as well as physical products online such as Courses or ebooks.You can create an online store or e-commerce store where you can sell items you specialise or deal in .Many bloggers also provide freelancing and consulting services as well which range from a mere 50$ to multi-figure deals and contracts.

4.Sponsored Post :- Once you have reached a decent amount of traffic many agencies and brands will reach out for promoting their products and services on your website .

These sponsored posts pay from a mimium of 1000$ to multi-figure deals over multiple articles.These posts particularly focus mainly on the features and qualities of the products or services of the brand or agencies promoting.

Can I start a blog for free?How costly it is to start a blog ?

Yes , we can start a blog for free. There are certain platforms like Blogger where you can start any free trial if you wish to blog for free.But the thing is you won’t hold entire ownership and they can remove your content whenever they want.

Also, there are certain platform like Wix where hosting is free but the website domain name would contain “wixsite” as part of it and it cannot be removed until a certain value is paid to them.

See we get what we pay for so why not have entire ownership of it with the minimal cost possible? With as low as 4$, we can own a website blog, or an online store and have full ownership of it, you can create customize and publish whatever you wish.

What should I blog on ?

One of the most beautiful aspects of blogs is you can do whatever you feel like. You can share cooking tips or pottery lessons. You can write about your research or journal your thoughts. You can share your knowledge and wisdom and help create a better world.

Blogging provides us with this freedom.

Usually at the start of this blogging journey, you won’t get much traffic so in the earlier stage you can play and experiment with different topics and customize your website.

Starting a blog isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme, we need to experiment and play a lot, be consistent with publishing content, understand our audience, understand what type of content they like etc etc . There are other factors as well like SEO, Keyword Research, Promoting the blog, Marketing etc etc which we will learn with the journey.

Once you start digging deep you will start getting a voice of your own.

So START NOW & KEEP GOING!!! See ya soon.